Over a year of crippling PF pain and now 7 mo pregnant

WOW-that's pretty tough on you - I wish you the best of luck...the one thing I can say no matter how uncomfortable it is wear the best supportive sneakers with custom insoles and no barefoot and no sandals...sorry...it will make a difference.  I have had PF for about 1.5 years now.  I recently had PRP injections and Radio frequency about 2.5 months ago - the jury is still out as I think I need more time.  However, if you have family that can help by all means let them....try not to stand for long periods either...show your family this and tell them that it is AS PAINFUL AS THEY CAN'T IMAGINE....good luck ( also had 3 cortizone shots but they did not help)

I had achilles tendonitis and PF for years and it got to the stage that i would be in pain when walking and if I sat at a desk for more than 15/20 minutes before getting up. I knew people who had tried cortisone injections but it only worked for one of them and he said he wouldn't do it again as it only lasted for 3 months and was very painful.

I asked my doctor about glyceryl trinitrate patches and he didn't want to know as there hadn't been enough work done on trials etc. Anyway I found an online source for the patches and applied them as per the trial I had read about.

After 6 months of using them my feet were finally free of pain and I was able to walk long distances without any problems. Not only that but 6 weeks ago I tried to run for the 1st time in almost 4 and a half years and I managed a couple of miles. I have run 3 times a week since then with no reaction at all and can't begin to explain how much it means to me to be able to run again (I ran for over 30 years prior to having to stop).

It appears to be the case that this can work for PF in the same way and although I am not a medical professional I am purely sharing this as I know what it's like to suffer with this and want to help anyone else with it. I know the possible side-effects of this are headaches but I didn't have any problems at all (although i don't remember ever having a headache so i guess i'm not susceptible to them).

I tried everything the podiatrists and docs suggested but just gave up as not getting better. eventually got rid of the PF and achiles tendonitis through a few simple stpes:

1. Serious icing - forget the bottle rolling and all that; stuck frozen champagne wrappers - those thing you are meant to put wine bottle in to keep cool - on my feet and sat on sofa for hours - to the point i thought my feet might freeze -  that worked wonders for the PF

2. get some Sketchers Go Walk (and threw out the orthotics) - also worked wonders - nice soft cushty much better for me than the customer orthotics and constant wearing of trainers. Wear trainers a lot but now intersperse with Go Walks and Fit Flops and the mix seems to make my feet quite happy. I think Go Walks must work for a lot of people as the company turnover has doubled in the ast 6 monhts and i love them so much thinkin i should buy shares in the company!!

3. Now do tons of swmming - thsi seems to massively help the achiles and PF as non weight bearing but seems to get everything moving and stretching. Watched loads of You Tube videos to try and swim properly - replaced the running with swimming to keep fit

4. Diet - i noticed that there was a strond correlation with being overweight / fat cells and all these complaints - the fat cells seem to set things off. Cut out wheat and most dairy and that seemed to make huge difference but wheter due to diet r losing weight i dont know but i feel tons better so now only occasionally eat either - first week was hard but thereafter i enjoy it. Massively increased fruti and veg i ate to get as many vits and mins as possible on off chance the body could use them to repair itself. 

4. on odd occasion it has returned, maybe once a month use voltarol, rest 1 day, pop on my Go Walk shoes, make sure i dont eat wheat and goes away again,

I have binned the jabs, constant pain killers & NSAIDS, the orthotics - none of them worked as well as the above and the determination to just get myself well again and not rely on the docs - i ended up thinking the orthotics etc just were perpetuating the issue rather than curing it.  

If it helps, my PF apepared overnight as did the achiles issues but they also went pretty quickly - within 4 weeks as soon as i made the above changes. 

the above work for me